The All Progressives Congress
(APC) has kick-started activities leading to the next national convention of
the party.

The party will in a couple of
weeks release fresh timetable for both state congresses and other programmes
earlier postponed.

The new schedule of activities is
being drawn to align with the 2019 election timetable issued by the Independent
National Electoral Commission (INEC).

APC National Publicity Secretary,
Bolaji Abdullahi, confirmed the development to newsmen in Abuja.

“Like I said after the NEC
meeting, we were unable to hold the convention at the scheduled time and you
are all aware that we earlier scheduled to hold, our mini convention in July,
but we were not able to do that for one reason or the other.

“That means that all the
programmes that the party has would have to dovetail into one another. We have
the party’s state congresses coming up, we have the mini convention and the
elective convention coming up that must happen by the first half of next year.

“So it is important we
synchronise all the activities and that is why a committee has been set up by
the NEC to sit together and harmonise all the various activities of the party
starting with the mini convention and the various congresses across the states
and local government areas which will now culminate with the national
convention.

“The outcome of the committee’s
assignment will be that we will now have a timetable that will synchronise win
the INEC’s calendar showing the activities of the party beginning with state
congresses and terminating with the national convention early next year.”

However, the tenure of the
present National Working Committee (NWC) led by John Odigie Oyegun is expected
to end June 13 next year.